Drawn from performances presented by organizations and individuals from the nine San Francisco Bay Area Counties dance community during the viewing cycle September 1, 2009- August 31, 2010, nominees for awards, Special and Sustained Achievement Honorees are as follows:

Outstanding Achievement in Choreography:

Wan-Chao Chang, Eurasia, Wan-Chao Dance, Ethnic Dance Festival, Weekend 4;

Hsiang-Hsiu Lin, Mix & Match 2010, Lin HH Dance Theatre;

Sara Shelton Mann, Tribes/Dominion, Sara Shelton Mann Dancers;

Yuri Possokhov, Classical Symphony, San Francisco Ballet;

Amy Seiwert, White Noise, Im’ij-re.

Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Individual:

Jenna McClintock, Coppelia, Diablo Ballet;

Pascal Molat, for his entire year of performances, including the San Francisco Ballet and The Tosca Project, American Conservatory Theater;

Luisa Lopez Saavedra, La Marinera Norteńa, El Tunante;

Nol Simonse, for his entire year of performances, including The Tosca Project, American Conservatory Theater;

Sofiane Sylve, in the middle, somewhat elevated, San Francisco Ballet;

Yuan Yuan Tan, The Little Mermaid, San Francisco Ballet.

Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Ensemble:

Stephanie Bastos, Daniel Brevi, Guy De Chalus, Zkiya Harris, Eyla Moore, Veleda Roehl, Amara Tabor Smith, Adia Tamar Whitaker, and Sonia Whittle, Ampey!, a work-in-progress, 2009 CounterPULSE Performing Diaspora Festival;

Jaime Garcia Castilla, Daniel Deivison-Oliviera, Victor Luiz, Gennadi Nedvigin, James Sofranko, and Hansuke Yamamoto, Classical Symphony, San Francisco Ballet;

Heather Cooper and Brian Fisher, Another Time, Mark Foehringer Dance Project;

Chad Dawson and Nol Simonse, Two Rooms, Stephen Pelton Dance Company;

Andrea Faraci and Iveta Pauryte, a season of International Standard Ballroom Dancing;

Private Freeman and Yukie Fujimoto, “Lettre ŕ Dos” from Je Me Souviens, Sonya Delwaide at ODC.

Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Company:

American Conservatory Theater and various guest artists, The Tosca Project, American Conservatory Theater;

Eszterlánc Hungarian Folk Ensemble, Traditional Dance Cycle from the Village of Magyarszovát, Ethnic Dance Festival, Weekend 3;

Janice Garrett & Charles Moulton, The Illustrated Book of Invisible Stories, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum;

Hui Tama Nui, Pepe Hau, Ethnic Dance Festival, Weekend 3;

Natyalaya, Parvathi, the Divine, Ethnic Dance Festival, Weekend 2;

Scott Wells & Dancers, Ball-ist-ic, CounterPULSE.

Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design:

Matthew Antaky, lighting design; Christine Darch, costume design; and Frieder Weiss, video design, White Noise, Im’ij-re;

Patty-Ann Farrell, lighting design and Aaron Sencil, costume and prop design, Pepe Hau, Hui Tama Nui;

David Finn and Yuri Zhukov, visual design, Classical Symphony, San Francisco Ballet;

Mary Louise Geiger, lighting design; Laura Jellinek, scenic design; and Mark Zappone, costume design, Ghosts, San Francisco Ballet;

Krissy Keefer, costume design, The Great Liberation, Dance Brigade;

Larry Reed, visual design and ZeJie Zheng, calligraphy design, Good-for-Nothing-Lover, ShadowLight Productions.

Outstanding Achievement in Music / Sound / Text:

Abhinaya Dance Company and San Jose Taiko, music, Synergy, Abhinaya Dance Company and San Jose Taiko;

The Cultural Heritage Choir and Fua Dia Congo drummers, music, Nzobi, Fua Dia Congo;

Hope Mohr and Brenda Hillman, text, Far from Perfect, Hope Mohr Dance;

Stellamara, musical adaption of Strumica/Azade, Eurasia, Wan Chao Dance;

Kip Winger, music, Ghosts, San Francisco Ballet.

Outstanding Achievement in Restaging / Revival / Reconstruction:

Roslyn Anderson, Petite Mort, Smuin Ballet;

Sonya Delwaide, “Lettre ŕ Jos” from Je Me Souviens, Sonya Delwaide at ODC;

Isabelle Fokine, Petrouchka, San Francisco Ballet;

Mythili Kumar and Rasika Kumar, Varsha – The Rainy Season, Abhinaya Dance Company;

Donald Mahler, Continuo, Ballet San Jose.

Special Awards:

Brenda Way and ODC.

For her vision, commitment, and perseverance to build a major dance center with a broad range of programs and resources for dance professionals, children, and the community.

YAK FILMS/Yoram Savion, Director.

For documenting the turf dancing by Oakland youth, particularly those videos that feature the RIP dances recorded at the locations in the Bay Area where other youth have died, and for making them available on YouTube.

Sustained Achievement:

Denise Jourdaine, Stephan Kraeul, and Rex Lewis, co-owners of Imperial Ballroom.

For their years of instruction and operation of the Imperial Ballroom in Redwood City, their training of professional ballroom competitors, and their continued management of internationally recognized ballroom competitions.

Mythili Kumar, Founder, Artistic Director of Abhinaya Dance Company.

For three decades of teaching, directing, and creation in South Indian classical dance forms of Bharata Natyam and Kuchipudi, and for providing Bay Area dance audiences with an understanding of the richness in these complex and historical dance forms.

Josefa Villanueva, Co-Founder and Artistic Director, Santa Clara Ballet.

For establishing and directing a dance repertory company with her late husband Benjamin Reyes for over 37 years. For offering instruction and training in classical ballet, for creating choreography for the company, and for providing performance opportunities for children and Bay Area professional dancers.

The Isadora Duncan Dance Award Committee is comprised of artists,
administrators, writers and other professionals serving voluntarily
for three year periods, one year for active artists, pledging to see at least twenty performances in varied styles each viewing cycle. On average, a minimum of 400 performances are seen each viewing year.